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Supermarket giant Woolworths is being urged to honour the spirit of its agreement with SPC Ardmona amid reports it may walk away from the $70-million deal.
Topics: food-processing, retail, industry, business-economics-and-finance, regional, states-and-territories, parliament, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000
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A bikram yoga class in Melbourne gets warmer than expected after a fire starts in an underground storage area.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, ascot-vale-3032, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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The creator of the chilling play Switzerland is the winner of a new $30,000 prize recognising the talent of Australian women who write for the stage and screen.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, theatre, books-literature, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000
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The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations appoints an administrator to the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation after a $500,000 loss.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-policy, money-and-monetary-policy, corporate-governance, bairnsdale-3875
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A 15-year-old boy is charged with more than a dozen offences following a crash in Melbourne's south-east that left one teen dead and another in a critical condition.
Topics: crime, narre-warren-3805, melbourne-3000
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Will teff be the newest ancient grain to find its place in the modern diet?
Topics: grain, community-development, rural-youth, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, wakool-2710, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedThe Australian Federal Police launch an investigation into 15 hoax calls made to planes and air traffic control over a two-week period, one of which caused a passenger flight to abort landing as it approached Melbourne Airport.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Warnings that 2016's hayfever season would be the worst in years has come to pass, with sufferers across Melbourne reporting severe symptoms.
Topics: allergies, health, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA new coding club for children in Bendigo uses volunteer mentors to assist with learning.
Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, children, agricultural-machinery, internet-technology, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, personal-computers, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedPolice in Melbourne are looking for a group of up to 15 hoodie-wearing teenagers after a spate of "brazen" thefts at Officeworks stores across the city's south-east over the weekend.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, chadstone-3148, yarra-glen-3775, carnegie-3163, highett-3190
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Katerina Gaita takes inspiration from the Tupperware party model and brings people together to talk about fighting climate change.
Topics: climate-change, environment, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, community-organisations, melbourne-3000
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A Victorian engineering expert is warning the rehabilitation of a coal mine the size of Hazelwood is unprecedented in Australia.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, morwell-3840
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Sixty dairy farmers have reaped the financial benefits of a controversial milk deal between Victoria's peak farm lobby group and supermarket giant Coles.
Topics: dairy-production, agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, food-and-beverage, colac-3250
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| UpdatedOnce power generation ceases at Hazelwood, the cooling ponds will drop in temperature, killing off a new barramundi fishery.
Topics: fish, fishing-aquaculture, state-parliament, morwell-3840
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Forty-three per cent of Australian women are not being screened regularly enough for cervical cancer, a fatal disease that is almost completely preventable, according to the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation.
Topics: cervical-and-vulval-cancers, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, science-and-technology, melbourne-3000, vic, wa, tas, sa, qld, nsw, nt, act, australia
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Two men and a woman are arrested after a stolen station wagon attempts to ram a police car in Mornington, south of Melbourne.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mornington-3931, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedDespite the strides women have made to break the "glass ceiling", experts say recent media coverage of "unladylike" behaviour at the Melbourne Cup and "unfashionable cleavage" highlights how society is failing to kill off sexism.
Topics: women, community-and-society, media-studies, internet-culture, information-and-communication, journalism, australia, melbourne-3000
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There are fears this summer could be the deadliest yet for Australian 'party drug' takers, with hundreds of new and unpredictable substances on the market, one of which a Brisbane woman tells the ABC "terrified" her.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, southport-4215, vic
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A profound environmental "silver lining" is winding its way down the country's river systems, all thanks to this year's devastating floods.
Topics: birds, animal-science, science-and-technology, renmark-5341, birdsville-4482, bedourie-4829, forbes-2871, winton-4735, vic, charlton-3525, kyalite-2734, goondiwindi-4390, st-george-4487, bathurst-2795, collarenebri-2833, qld, cunnamulla-4490, nsw, menindee-2879, sa
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| UpdatedA teenager remains on the run after fleeing the scene of a car smash in suburban Melbourne that left one person dead and four others in hospital, one in a critical condition.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, narre-warren-3805, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Sydney FC come from a goal down to beat Melbourne Victory 2-1 and maintain their perfect A-League record this season.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe connections of Awesome Rock could feel they were owed their victory in Saturday's Mackinnon Stakes (2,000m) at Flemington.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, flemington-3031, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A kayaker's body is pulled from waters off Torquay on Victoria's surf coast — the second drowning death in the town in as many days.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, torquay-3228, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAbout 200 people gather to support a group of Syrian refugees at Melbourne's Eltham as anti-immigration protesters hold a counter rally.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, eltham-3095, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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It has been a busy year in Patchewollock, as internationally renowned artist arrives in town to paint their silos.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, rural, patchewollock-3491